M 4.7 in Iran on 16 Nov 2012 03:58 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 120917
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 38.56 , 46.73
Event Date: 16 Nov 2012 03:58 UTC
16 Nov 2012 07:28 Local
Exposed Population:
2620000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Nov 2012 14:40 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
EMSC 0.5 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 299 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

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La EMA anuncia la reanudación de la fabricación del sulfato de protami ... Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:02:00 +0100.

El Comité de Medicamentos de Uso Humano de la Agencia Europea del Medicamento (EMA, en sus siglas en inglés) ha informado de que "en breve" se reanudará la fabricación del sulfato de protamina tras los problemas surgidos como consecuencia d
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),